i don’t like the fact the minority cuisine is treated as exotic,these people they are teaching are not tourist,they live in melboune,why can’t they visit footscray for themselves if they really appreciate these cuisine.happy they are not visiting somalian cafes,we don’t need reality show😯😯

saaxil lets be honest,somalian footscray most are old style,the barbershop in arcade with exception those french st and the cafes are mostly old fashion,how do you expect food tours to take you serious!

yes they are still a community cafe.a number of times i been i was the only non south sudanese,but i am somali but for non afro community its still a little out of their way. the man running the place and the nepalese cashier are wonderful they make you comfortable with music on screen tv.

there are 4 somali cafes in footscray,but all are unassuming.one is burger style,one is hidden in african mall,the other two can be assumed to be ethiopian. most people are not aware the somali presence in footscray,even thought half of businesses on paisley st ,nicholson st and french st are somali & 90% of businesses in footscray business hub are somali.we have strong presence in fooscray

i am african there are white cuisine like burgers i like but there caucasian cafes that i don’t go not because the food is bad but i am simply not interested & its strange if i hire bus full of black people and start to fo tour on these caucasian cafes in footscray.

Ha love that suggestion.but i hate to tell you but they will think we just landed on melbourne airport yesterday from Africa like real tourist, its only culturally appreciate for white community who are majority in this country to tour the “DIFFERENT strange little ones living in their country”. I like all cultural food and i do respect, i do like some Caucasian foods, particularly the English breakfast but there are many other dishes which i find hard to eat.i remember one time being served “just fruit” in the name of aussie breakfast, i like fruits later hours but early morning breakfast man it was hard,out of respect i eat it, it was popular breakfast dish .it was an experience its self.there was uncooked egg on top of it;,africans usually prefer cooked but things got worse for me as egg broke & covered every tiny think on my plate,if knew it was uncooked i could push aside and ignored but it was experience for me. But presentation looked absolutely amazing i have to give credit for that and service was perfect.

But the white people near me seem to love it, now i learned to say please don’t toast my bread and please cooked egg thank you ha. People there appreciated the dryness of these dishes, almost like eating dry weathbix with friuts. they prefer toasted bread with fruits leafs nuts and uncooked egg was suppose to do the moisture job. I respect peoples cultural food.the regulars was enjoying 100% more importantly

they say minority food is different,yes sometimes it can like goat dishes or eating with hands but i think food from white community can be more scary to try,and its not because we never seen avacados or sandwich or nuts ,its just how they combine items in one dish can be scary for minorities. they only say minoriyy is different because its food politic, and food from majority groups should be attractive and norm

i think if you practice you can get your head around to it these Caucasian eateries, some of them do have like sausages, and you can avoid other so called scary mixes, they do avoid some of our scary dishes like goat,camel or food that requires you to get your hand dirty.but i understand the options can be limited in those Caucasian cafes,but you can find that ONE plate if you try hard

the white communities are not known for “spicy”. its eastern world thing culturally. they will put little seasoning on steak and they are happy.what we consider plane taste, for them its delicious.their tongue is adopted to it so its what you grow up with.cultural difference cooking style. for eg; even little thing like try caucasian soup,its pumpkin and just tastes hot pumpkin.

i like baked egg/tomato shakshuka seved with slice bread,not toasted one but i could eat breaky and lunch.we africans should give it ago,i know sometimes these cafes can appear as if they grabed nuts and leafs from tree and throw it on top if the slice bread but if you look hard their menu you can find something to taste it.& why not african tour in toorak ,who cares about food politic ☺

you all fail to mention the muffins/coffee for their breakfast ,its just perfect combination,its like sambusa /tea ,they get that one right i recon. i like wheat strawbery fruity staf but with milk can like wheatbix can be fine but how they eat in their cafes with dry dry stone like toast i can’t.but every culture you can find things hard to bite

I wouldn’t compare somali camel dish to Caucasian breakfast, the name of animal(exotic ) scares them not actually taste or looks ,for most part if they are not its camel they will eat like beef, but i find scary the Caucasian breaky not because of name but actually the combination . The interesting version is the slice bread under the other staf is actually originated from the bread curry versions we have in east, but interesting part is how they formed their version, it revolves around not getin your hands dirty,instead dipping the bread in curry uisng hands they created in a form where you can eat with knive and fork, slice bread under the rest lot ..

Ha😁 if you give Somali breakfast chapati liver curry to a white person, 99% they will eat like toasted slice breakfast, chapati sits bottom liver curry on to and start eating with knife and fork if they use their imagination.

This somalian barbershop is changing face of melbourne west scene but only their modern style ones are mainstream, their 80s style are only attractive afro australian community.this north melbourne is small but hip

but its same for all non mainstream barbers.i sometimes went to greek barber but do get little hints on “carefulness” atmosphere when they are talking about australian issues or politics,for example he will ask me what i think of it such topic before he contineous talkin.but its non mainstream barbershop mainly white customers.but i ‘m only there like 15-20 min so they have anough time to talk freely as they wish.a good barber though,good service and i am laughing all through it. when i am city i go there

barbershop is different to cafes, for cafes people who know each exchange news but for barbershop, not only barber is talking customer infront of him but also sharing his thoughte with everyone waiting their turn at the back.any one can join conversation

ok its different to italian,not many aussies eat somali pasta but somalis they eat alot.but their pizza and burger is just aussie/italian. there is good pizza in footscray ,i like encore pizza in corner barkly st/french st, for good burgers 8bit droops is good

somali pasta is sahras kitchen or safari restaurant in ascot vale but but the one aussies eat is like new somali kitchen but that is version is not what normally eat home.somalis they like it oily and dry version.but maistream ones generally not dry

Yes, Acsot Vale is west as far as we’re concerned. Safari was actually the first Somalian restaurant we started eating in. There are several reviews if you want to search for them. It’s been a while since we’ve been there. I said to Bennie last week, we should get back there soon.

the company is good;and been good to unmarked,i am not intrested for other reason.if lasted one year not bad,they are not usually intrested that type of reporting but i personally like it.very good review

somali american fast food ,hard to beat atlanta.so many pizza/burger/sambusa in one eatery,very nice indeed.deg deg grill is westcoast/cali food in northeast USA weirdly enough.afro deli is good that part of united states.

all i am saying is lets not support something with special intrest,lets talk actually eatery we eat in. using million words if “australian” or “aussie” on particular eateries and not others just sounds american rehersal citcom play